Bill Vendl

Life of Bill Vendl : February 19, 1932-October 30, 2016
Proceeded by parents Charles and Alice Vendl.
Survived by wife Janice Vendl, sons Bill, David Vendl, and Mike Uraine, daughter Suzanne Vendl and Kenny Jarvis, and granddaughter Kaitlyn Jarvis; and daughter Rhonda Weimmeister.
Brother Charles (Chuck) Vendl, sister in-law Bonnie, and her husband Sy Rupslauk,, along with his many beloved nieces and nephews, and grandnieces and grandnephews. Included also is his “best friend” Wrigley, his Weimaraner.
His many life experiences include being a member of the 1956 USA Olympic Modern Pentathlon team in the Summer Olympic games held in Melbourne, Australia, a retired Coast Guard Captain, a Long Beach State Intramural director, and acted as the RT Incentives Travel director of site inspections. He was a professor, an author, and as recent as 2011, a member of the Re-Creations’s “The Singing Colonels”; a men’s quartet formed in 1951, where Bill sang the lead, touring VA medical centers and State Veteran homes in Florida, to “help encourage all Americans to help meet the needs of every Veteran, every day!”
Bill Vendl, (it can be said by those who knew him,) to be worthy of being “the most interesting man of the world!” As well as having the title of “Amongst the Most Traveled People’s top 50”, having traveled over 125 countries and 47 of the 50 states of America.
The family requests that in lieu of flowers, you may make a donation to the memory of Bill Vendl to: Re-Creations P.O.Box 220, Port Trevorton, PA 17864 or to www.re-creationusa.org . via Pushpay.
Luyben Dilday Mortuary (562) 425-6401